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The battery on my son’s MP4 player has eroded, but he’s going on a road trip so I wanted him to have the option of some music and some audiobooks. He’s at a great age, where juvenile fiction includes such things as the series about the young James Bond, stories of adventure when tweens go […]

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Snow Days

Today is our third snow day in a row. My son has been in school for 2 hours this week; that included P.E. (rollerblading) and lunch. The remaining time was spent in the classroom, with the substitute teacher phoning parents to tell them of the early dismissal. Kids shared their cell phones (11 out of […]

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Dancing Around the Living Room

I’m listening to my Lyle Lovett station on Pandora, loud, surprised that each song is something that fits exactly the mood I’m in, although that’s the magic of Pandora – the genetic coding of music to create caches of similar tonality, rhythm, mood, even vocal range. It would be like going to Baskin Robbins and […]

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Writing Sparks

Today I’m spending 3+ hours in the balcony of a high school gym, while my son is taking a middle school entrance exam. When I thought about where to send him for middle school, I didn’t realize exactly what process I was setting in motion. But here I am, in a gym not quite like […]

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Small children know a lot. They know rules to games, jump-rope rhymes, how to avoid eye contact with grown ups, how to hide the ubiquitous yet contraband Pokémon cards, even how to calculate time, since they are never done playing until at least two full minutes past the bell that signals recess is over. More […]

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